Rayleigh-Benard convection Rayleigh Number Nusselt Number total heat flux conductive heat flux
Turbulent Convection Experimental set up d = 20 cm Lx =40 cm Ly = 10 cm Temperature profiles Nu versus Ra
Heat transport in turbulent convection When the system is turbulent: probe
Variable employed for the test
PDF of temperature at Ra=10 10
Deviation from a Gaussian as a function of
PDF of temperature at Ra=10 10 We select an interval around zero and we compute
with We find: Therefore the temperature PDF verifies for -0.5<Y<0.5
A good rescaling of the PDF is obatined for all values of Scaling Function We modify the Sinai scaling function in the following way: